Lab Exploring pH

Intro:
What is an acid?
Releases H+ ions HCL H2 CO3
What is a base?
Releases OH- ions (or take up H+ ions)
What is a buffer?
A compound that maintains pH by accepting or releasing H+ ions

Exploration Materials:
- HCL
- NaOH
- Unknown A,B,C,D
- Distilled Water
- Litmus Paper
- pH Paper
- Buffer pH 7
- Spot Plate
- Test Tubes

Questions:
1) What do you want to know?
I would like to know if acids and bases react to one another?
2) How can you figure that out?
Mix to representatives of each together and observe the reaction.
It was discovered that acids mixed with bases neutralize each other.

Observation:

Exploration:
Classify, explain how the buffer worked?
Baking soda + vinegar, borax?
A buffer helps prevent the pH of a solution from changing drastically. The weak acid/base and its conjugate acid/base absorb the excess H+ and OH- by creating water and another compound in another in order to minimize changes to the pH order.

Conclusion:
Two questions that have arisen from your experiments; don't need an answer?
1) How does a pH scale work?
2) What do different pH levels of particles actually represent?